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Great idea! For me, it's the acronyms that are difficult or impossible to cypher. And even in the body of the post, often the location is not stated.

Third annual GMPPD hang.

It's that time again and we are looking forward to it. If you haven't been, make plans to come visit, free Snickers and lottery tickets to everyone.

I want a Snicker and a lottery ticket! Where, where!

I agree totally, How to enforce without putting that on the Mods? We already can't edit our thread titles. I don't want to twist this but if the thread titles could be edited by the thread owners, this could be made a lot easier on the Mods. I don't see and drawback to it.

PLUS I also want my Snickers and Lottery ticket! Long as I don't have to drive far for it. Do I?

I'm suggesting that all future posts about possible hangs, or upcoming hangs have their titles start with the location in all caps. So a title would look something like:

"NORTH GEORGIA: Amicalola River Trail Hang"

or

"COLORADO: Gray Wolf Mountain Hang"

etc...

I like the idea and will be glad to do it on my next trip planning thread, (if I remember.)

Originally Posted by oldgringo

Better still: a standard template for initial posts on this board, that can be edited as details emerge. Reading through pages and pages of posts can get old, fast.

+++++ 1 on this - There is great value in the ability to edit/update a primary post, especially on a planning thread, otherwise there either needs to be a lot of scrolling or post duplication with updates made, (which is the M.O. of which I'm guilty). (Gringo - if I forget idea uno above, feel free to prod me on it. )

Originally Posted by plaunius

Great idea! For me, it's the acronyms that are difficult or impossible to cypher. And even in the body of the post, often the location is not stated.

Third annual GMPPD hang.

It's that time again and we are looking forward to it. If you haven't been, make plans to come visit, free Snickers and lottery tickets to everyone.

I want a Snicker and a lottery ticket! Where, where!

Also a good idea, I will try to make sure that I speak English when putting titles on planning threads. (I could really go for a Snickers now )

Originally Posted by wyleone

I agree totally, How to enforce without putting that on the Mods? We already can't edit our thread titles. I don't want to twist this but if the thread titles could be edited by the thread owners, this could be made a lot easier on the Mods. I don't see and drawback to it.

PLUS I also want my Snickers and Lottery ticket! Long as I don't have to drive far for it. Do I?

Awww. You had to go and use the "E" word.

I was sold on the idea of leading with the state/location in all caps.

I Love the idea of thread editing of initial post by OP.

I also have committed to using grown up words and not just letters.

Where I balk now is the idea of "enforcement".

The suggestions given are great and would improve/enhance the recognition of and understanding of planning threads. I agree with wyleone that putting one more thing on the moderators is not the way to go. Such suggestions, IMHO, should be self policing. With our membership now pushing the 15,000 mark, over half a million posts and over 35,000 threads. Our Moderators have enough to do. (I do recognize that the same argument about our numbers could be made to support a title standardization policy. Grrr. )

We already can't edit our thread titles. I don't want to twist this but if the thread titles could be edited by the thread owners, this could be made a lot easier on the Mods. I don't see and drawback to it.

I agree 100%, ability to edit titles could have this problem licked in a week.

Originally Posted by UncleMJM

Awww. You had to go and use the "E" word.

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Where I balk now is the idea of "enforcement".

I agree here as well. A hard & fast rule is probably not going to be effective but it also isn't required. If you come to the forum and every post title is done in this way; you will naturally format your post that way.

Just be conscientious of the newbs (like me) when you are posting up your new "hang" plans.